Quaternionic bound states

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/15/014MaRDI QIDQ4676305zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano De Leo, Gisele Ducati

Publication date 3 May 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0504025, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.341.1140

zbMATH Keywords

Pauli-Schrödinger equationquaternionic Schrödinger equationquaternions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Abstract: We study the bound-state solutions of vanishing angular momentum in a quaternionic spherical square-well potential of finite depth. As in the standard quantum mechanics, such solutions occur for discrete values of energies. At first glance, it seems that the continuity conditions impose a very restrictive constraint on the energy eigenvalues and, consequently, no bound states was expected for energy values below the pure quaternionic potential. Nevertheless, a careful analysis shows that pure quaternionic potentials do not remove bound states. It is also interesting to compare these new solutions with the bound state solutions of the trial-complex potential. The study presented in this paper represents a preliminary step towards a full understanding of the role that quaternionic potentials could play in quantum mechanics. Of particular interest for the authors it is the analysis of confined wave packets and tunnelling times in this new formulation of quantum theory.

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